Example sentences for: herculaneum

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  • Their weapons and armor, along with Pompeii’s more fragile works of art, are exhibited at Naples’ Archaeological Museum (see page 173), which is an invaluable adjunct to your visit to Pompeii or Herculaneum.

  • Herculaneum is smaller (only a fraction has been recovered) and less renowned than Pompeii, but its very compactness and better preservation give a more immediate sense of the shape and ambience of a whole Roman town, this one just 7 km (4 1/2 miles) from Vesuvius.

  • Vesuvius blotted out the flourishing town along with Herculaneum on 24 August a.d. 79, burying it under 7 m (23 ft) of ash: It is still being slowly excavated.

  • All are in easy reach of Naples’ museums, the archaeological remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum, the Vesuvius volcano, and farther down the coast, the Greek temples of Paestum.

  • Most popular are the stunning Pompeii mosaics and Herculaneum bronzes on the mezzanine floor.


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